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Self Reflection Essay

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Half of living is reflecting on what is being lived.
I highly agree with this sentence, self-reflecting is difficult. I am working on self-reflecting and how understanding myself will help me understand others. Self-reflecting can affect people in a positive or in a negative way. I have to learn to pull and highlight all the positive aspects of what a self-reflection emerge, with out fixating on the fear or the negative. Most of us are thirsty individuals that want immediate ratification and reward. We seek a quick buzz without wanting to work hard and without the hangover. We all want the answers and we all want help, but we do not want to help others succeed. I say most and I say we, because it is hard to say I. We all want to fit …show more content…

It is easy to tell others, “this is what you should do to feel better mentally,” but I am mentally loosing it. In accepting that this will not be an easy journey, and that I will be making mistakes along the line, but learning from it, is a strong way to start my career.

Accepting myself and how unique I am will allow me to understand others; this includes my family, friends, coworkers, fellow students, and future clients. We are all have a cup on our hands and we all have different drinks in our cup. We all take pleasure in different drinks. Also, everyone has gone through different paths to come to this point in their lives. We are all unique, and we all deserve to enjoy our cup. Some people will just chug the cup and others will sip it. This idea will help understand when I encounter different clients. They might not agree with my uniqueness and my individually. They might not agree with how I have sipped my cup, and what I learned might not be of use to them. But, I have to try and learn how to help them. By expanding my understanding of how others fill their cup or what they put in their cup will help me help them.

Not everyone has the ability to see how unique they are or can be, and then there are others that selfishly affect others to reach their goals. I have to try to help the people that cannot even get up to get a cup. I believe, that God willing I will succeed

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